How to grow mushrooms in the garden

Growing mushrooms in the garden is easy and a great addition to your plants. You can plant complete mushroom farms, but you can also grow mushrooms together with other plants. In fact, both plants and fungi can benefit greatly from being grown together!

Not many people think that you can grow mushrooms in the garden, especially not in combination with other plants. The idea of ​​large mushrooms next to the flowers may seem strange, but when you think about it a second time, it feels quite obvious. What happens when you introduce fungal mycelium into a crop is that the mycelium takes control of the nutrition and helps repel bacteria and invaders that might contaminate the soil. It also releases a lot of organic material that the plants can take nourishment from, which means that the plants partly get a better defense, and extra nutrition. 

This is how you co-grow mushrooms and plants

Buy home mycelium and substrate of the desired variety, and spread the mycelium and substrate in even layers over your already planted plant cultivation or flower bed. Water abundantly, then you're done!

When the flowerbed is covered with mycelium and substrate, you also get a layer that holds in the moisture for the plants and the mycelium, which is especially beneficial in the summer. Giant collard scallion is a well-suited mushroom variety for this technique.

How to set up a mushroom farm in a flower box

Start by covering the bottom with wood chips, then sprinkle a layer of mycelium and then a layer of straw, birch or oak pellets. Then you add new layers in the same order until you run out of mycelium and substrate. Make sure that the last layer consists of wood chips or straw pellets, so that the mycelium is not exposed on top. Water abundantly. Giant collard slivers and gray oyster slivers are two favorites for this technique where you can get very large yields.

How to grow mushrooms outdoors

Dig a pit in a shady part of your garden, fill it with mycelium and substrate in the same way as you would in a flower box. Water abundantly and wait! If you want to grow one of our favorites - Stolt fjällskivling , you can add a thin layer of soil on top and sow grass seeds. Feel free to put a cover over it so that the grass seeds germinate and do not dry out.

Which type of fungus is suitable for which substrate and technique?

We have specific instructions for how best to plant each mushroom, as well as which substrate is suitable for the mushroom you want to grow. You will find these instructions on each mushroom's product page.

On our gardening page you will find everything you need from mycelium to substrate.
Feel free to check out Svamphuset's golden rules for mushroom cultivation , there you will find important basic knowledge that all mushroom growers should have with them when growing mushrooms!